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Integrating Linux into a Windows Network?

Posted by Cliff on from the penguins-and-broken-glass-panes dept.

Di0medies asks: "I work for a some-what small non-profit organization that uses a windows-based network. We currently have 6 servers supporting about 25 local domain users and about 25 remote users and we're planning on migrating from Server 2000 to Server 2003 in a month or so. Being a non-profit, we're always a little tight on cash and considering Microsoft charges ungodly amounts of money for server software, migrating portions of the network to Linux leaves more cash available for other IT goodies (like a new high-capacity file server!) and also adds more stability and security to the network. All of this depends on how well a Linux server will work on a Windows network. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding Linux integration? Can Windows and Linux be made to play well together? Is there anything out there to add limited Active Directory support to Linux?"

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  1. RTFG by davidyorke · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=fire fox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=linux+a ctive+directory&btnG=Search

  2. It says "Ask Slashdot." He did. by sethadam1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is Slashdot, not the New York Times. And this is an "Ask Slashdot" item. Must we tell someone to google it every goddamn time something is posted?

    For the love of God, can't we just answer someone with our experiences and build up this "Google" you speak of with some actual content?

    I thought the open source community was founded on COMMUNITY. Man, if the old days of USENET could see us now, they'd be ashamed.

  3. Erm... by Nimrod · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm still waiting for the punchline.

    If you can't google far enough to ask this sort of thing on a samba mailinglist, you have to ask yourself, "Should I really be running any sort of server in any size enterprise environment?"

    And on top of that, someone thought everyone would care enough to have this posted on the front page of slashdot. There's 10 minutes I'm not getting back.